[ZERO] Back in mid-2025, when Trump's renewed trade war with China was all the rage, we said that much of this was hot air and theatrics for the simple reason that many Chinese exporters would find easy ways to evade US tariffs thanks to "transshipments", or u... and none more so than Vietnam, which quickly emerged as the central nexus in US tariff evasion.sing intermediary countries as fake points of origin ...It appears the Trump admin finally got the memo, and on Thursday it released a sharply worded report accusing Chinese exporters of orchestrating a system of "illegal transshipment" through more than 40 third countries to dodge US tariffs, branding the practice "The Great Transshipment Scam".
The 25-page document confirms what we reported for much of 2025, and claims Chinese firms systematically diverted goods through lower-tariff jurisdictions since the US kicked off its trade war with China in 2018.
It alleges that exporters use limited assembly, relabelling, repackaging, re-invoicing and false country-of-origin declarations to disguise Chinese-origin products and secure more favourable tariff treatment on entry into the US.